The second Paraguayan column, led by Colonel…
January 1865 CE
The second Paraguayan column, led by Colonel Francisco Isidoro Resquín and including four thousand men, had penetrated a region south of Mato Grosso and sent a detachment to attack the military frontier post of Dourados.
The detachment, led by Major Martín Urbieta, had encountered tough resistance on December 29, 1864, from Lieutenant Antonio João Ribeiro and his sixteen men, who were all eventually killed but did not yield.
The Paraguayans had continued to ...